He was intimately involved and extremely influential in every counterculture movement and activity of the 1960s, including politics and the promotion of rock festivals and in the 1970s, the Punk rock rebellion. He founded the Trans High Corporation and the High Hopes Foundation.

Though his untimely death is generally considered to have been a suicide, there are still conspiracy theorists who believe that he was assassinated by a government agency to stop his legalization activism. His legend and his dream lives on through the magazine and foundation he founded.